BROAD LACE BRAID TRIMMING

Venice, ca. 1700

FITTED RELIEF LACE

Venice, mid-17th c.

Permanent Collection Renaissance Baroque Rococo

Permanent Collection Renaissance Baroque Rococo

GOBLET WITH COURT OF ARMS

Bohemia, ca. 1720

Glass, with faceted shaft, gold and ruby threading, face matte and polished, the knob of the lid continues the gold and ruby
threading of the shaft, engraved coat of arms of Duke Christoph Wilhelm von Thürheim the Older(16611738), from 1713
Captain of the land on the EnnsGl 172 / 1867

Permanent Collection Renaissance Baroque Rococo

Artistic intervention: Franz Graf

The joint arrangement of precious glasses with valuable needle and bobbin lace in the Renaissance Baroque Rococo Collection
on permanent display not only complies with aspects of art history, but also places these delicate materials in a visual-sensuous
dialogue with each other that enhances and accentuates their aesthetic effect with striking clarity.

A design intention = states of affairs. The wealth of appearances.The legacy of those who were here before us = the form of actions, our inheritance = memory: museums are also, like cemeteries,
our quiet bliss: because the nature of the encounter also gives rise to understanding: it seems there can be no truth concerning
this, but only original, brilliant works: silence is the word extinct. Because the same thing once meant something else: because
the essence of things is forever dead, and its material properties maintain this expansion into a different world: because
a past exists that the living individual can reach into and at least the possibility is hinted at of coming to an end through
oneself and beyond with the early ***** appearance. / Franz Graf

The MAK's collection of lace, and its holdings of glasswareespecially Venetian glassare considered among the finest
and most varied in the world. Even in the Baroque period, Venetian glasswork was particularly treasured, and both men and
women spent vast sums on the sumptuous lace decoration that fashion demanded.While glass-making is one of the oldest handicraft techniques in the world, the history of lace-making only begins in the
late Renaissance period, probably in Italy. A distinction is made between needlepoint lace and bobbin lace, but combinations
of the two techniques are often seen. Florence, and later Venice and Milan, were the centers of Italian lace-making in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, before lace-making in France and Flanders began during the eighteenth century. Venice
was the center of European glass-making from the Middle Ages onwards. Around 1500, Venetian glass-makers succeeded in producing
clear, colorless glass. Glassblowing spread from Venice across the whole of Europe. In the north, centering on Bohemia and
Silesia, there was a preference for harder glass that could be decorated with relief or intaglio engraving, or glass decorated
with enamel, Schwarzlot ("black solder"), or gold. This presentation of glasswork and lacework is not based only on art-historical
criteria, but also on the visual effects of the materialstheir "transparency", material delicacy, and the virtuosity
of the craftsmanship involved in their productionwhich may today be the aspect of them that arouses the greatest admiration.
/ Angela Völker (curator of the MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection during the phase of the reinstallation of the MAK Permanent
Collection in the early 1990s)

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Biography

FRANZ GRAFBorn 1954 in Tulln, Lower Austria. Lives and works in Vienna.Franz Graf is one of the most important representatives of a neo-conceptual position. His innovative combinations of divergent
media such as drawing, photography, and installation repeatedly lead to new and open structures. The spectrum of his motifs
ranges from abstract to ornamental, figurative and emblematic, or to factual representations of reality made with the camera.

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Textiles and Carpets Collection

Curator: Silke Geppert

The holdings of the MAKs collection of textiles, which is one of the foremost textile collections in the world, cover
the time from Late Antiquity until today; they encompass the globe with works from nearly all parts of Asia and Europe, and
even South America. The collection is a comprehensive material archive reflecting the artistic, technical, and economic developments
of this special field throughout the last 1,500 years. This richness of the material archive gives it a unique capability
of illustrating the multifaceted, international cultural interconnections that have developed over the centuries.